Welly keeps pulling them in.......

[Welly]

It seems I'm irresistible to the birds in me Volvo recently,


here's one that dropped by last night..........
































and a closer look....


These pictures, and the ability for me to get so close to the bird were thanks, in part, to the apparent realisation that this animal was not long for this world still, at least I made it an internet star.....poor old thing

(pictures do not show the next stage, after the bird sat there for about 5 mins, of it attempting a running take off towards my camera phone and me screaming like a puff).

[puggy]

What surprises me is the fact that it is alive and not splattered all over
your vulva !! as this seems the normal practise for you welly when you
come into contact with our little animal friends

[steve_earwig]

Looks like a fledgling thrush, they're getting rare you know Put it somewhere safe (i.e. no cats about), give it a dish of water and some cat or dog foot. When I was a lad a magpie knocked the mistle thrush (even rarer) chicks out of a nest in our conker tree, we had to rescue one with a broken leg. We fed it cat food and worms and, when it was old enough to fly, it hung about for most of a year then sadly just disappeared

Speaking of screaming like a puff, a couple of weeks back I was in the bathroom when I felt something on the back of my leg. I looked down and there I spied a hornet (you know, huge wasp, sting effects range from excruciating agony through gangrene to you're dead). My wife came running when she heard the scream but by the time she got there I'd jiggled it of and stamped on it. Then I cut it in half and finally flushed it down the bog. Ripley: "It's the only way to be sure."

[Welly]

give it a dish of water and some cat or dog foot ]

Isn't that being a bit cruel to the cat or dog? seems a bit extreme

It did kinda look a bit fluffy and young but there was something wrong. It kept falling onto it's beak and hopping like summat was up with it's leg - I hadn't got anything/where to put it and it kinda toddled off down the hill, we couldn't find it after that.

I rescued a Pigeon once after a cat had it (even took it to the vets for an injection ) and set it free once it was better [/redemption]

[steve_earwig]

Gah! I should have read that first Rare birds pigeons

We had 6 starlings once, they built a nest in our chimney which collapsed and my dad had to dismantle the boiler to get them out. They lived in a rabbit cage in our shed for a few months, we fed them on dog fooD. My dad's a bit like that though, digging stops if a worm falls into the hole He rescued a blackbird when he was a lad, when it was well he released it and it fluttered down to the garden, landing right in front of a big black cat that couldn't believe its luck

[Welly]

I know, I know, I mean these days drivers score points in mashing the things but this was about 15 years ago in our first house and the bird was sat under a bush after the cat attack so we didn't know what else to do but scoop it up and sort it out.

In my defence it was one of the 'nicer' variety like a Dove kinda thing

[steve_earwig]

Ah, dove, cool, I thought for a moment you meant one of those disease-ridden flying rat things

Speaking of cats, now we have 4 the local bird population is taking a dive, I watched a couple of birds (don't know what, some sort of foreign finch with a red tail) build a nest in my wife's house's eves last year. This year I found one dead in the back garden and the nest remained empty

Along with dead birds they also bring in dead mice, there was a deer mouse on the dining room carpet last night, so when my wife asked the usual "what shall we have for lunch tomorrow? question I was able to dangle it in front of her face and say "This." "Urrgh, get it out!!"

[Welly]

I hate mice with a passion and will cheerfully smash the living daylights out of one. At least six have been unfortunate enough to have met me down at the office/store

They serve no purpose - unless someone can fill me in (not literally of course, if you like mice, like).

[Blue406]

Once rescued a baby rabbit from the jaws of the family cat.

She came into in a saturday morning with the wee thing screaming for its life in her mouth.
20 minute chase later we managed to corner the cat and extract the little fur ball. Neighbours knew of a rabbit colony nearby and took it there.

[sirwiggum]

I don't mind Mice. Not in my kitchen though, or anywhere I would eat, the thought of disease turns me.
But as a pet or whatever I don't mind them.

What I hate and can't stand, and the hot weather brings them out, are dirty stinking flies. Hateful creatures.

Spiders scare me a bit, but I find myself tolerating them a lot more in exchange for them dealing with the fly problem.

[steve_earwig]

I used to dream of living in corridor...

The neighbours both sides here keep pigs etc and the flies are unimaginable now it's warmed up. I put flypaper up in the kitchen a week back and it's rapidly turning black. Club Thorax, it's a great place to hang with your buddies, come in and stick around.

[sirwiggum]

I used to dream of living in corridor...

The neighbours both sides here keep pigs etc and the flies are unimaginable now it's warmed up. I put flypaper up in the kitchen a week back and it's rapidly turning black. Club Thorax, it's a great place to hang with your buddies, come in and stick around.

Fly paper turns me.

Dead flies make me gag more than living flies.

Those biscuits with the raisins in, I used to love them until schoolfriends gave them the name of "flies graveyard"

[highlander]

I hate flying buzzing insects. I have a phobia of bees, wasps and hornets, so by extension, flies, bluebottles, etc. all make me very nervous and upset.

I like honey, so I see the point in bees, but wasps and hornets? Why would you have a flying insect that is also extremely hostile, exhibit swarming behaviour, and when found in numbers, are capable of killing you?

Flies and bluebottles are just gross. Totally pointless creatures.

[teamster1975]

I was given one of these a couple of years ago, take out your retribution on the wasps & flies!

[steve_earwig]

So it squashes them and electrocutes them, that's as bad as me and the hornet!